Wednesday, March 7, 2012

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...

This past week I have mostly spent my time revisiting and reworking my Hello Soul Hello Business lessons from the first half of class. The second half of class started just a couple of days ago,on Monday, and I am already behind...much to read, worksheets to do (you'll notice in the photo below that there is no writing on the worksheets) - sigh. I will get there.

Over the weekend I worked on a necklace for a dear family friend - one of my Mom's best friends. When I was home over the holidays she gave me her Mother's jewelry (a few necklaces, her wedding ring, her charm bracelet) and asked that I put it together into a necklace. You see, she saw the necklace I made out of my Gram's jewelry at her funeral and asked if I would help and do the same for her.

I made a lot of progress. You see, up until this weekend I was in demolition mode. Carefully taking pieces apart - sawing jump rings, removing charms (which will be shared with each of the children and grandchildren that are represented on their respective charm), taking part the watch, etc.

Cherished memories made into a repurposed necklace rather than sitting in a jewelry box and never being worn means so much to me. I'll be honest, this is the first time I am doing this for someone else and I was a little nervous that I would ruin or mess something up but I haven't and won't ...and I can honestly say that I am enjoying the process of creating a signature single piece out of her treasured memories.

I still have work to do, when you put this on everything clumps together. I am going to work on creating beads, similar to the gold piece that I created out of part of a necklace to hold the wedding ring on, to go in between each item so that there will be more space when worn.

Do you have cherished family jewelry that's sitting in a box and not being worn? Would you like a necklace or charm bracelet to be made out of the pieces? Feel free to send me an email at lorimoonstudio[@]gmail[.]com - FYI take the brackets [ ] out.

Lori--I love what you're doing with all the charms. My mom has some charm bracelets with sweet charms representing me and my two brothers. I'll have to keep this in mind next time I go to her house. Perhaps she'd let me do something with them since they are just sitting in her jewelry box. I remember as a little girl going in there a lot and playing with the charms--they were so cool to a little girl!

What you are doing is very cool, I am also working on something similar with pins and broaches from my mother and grandmother, but it's not jewlery, just something that can be viewed everyday instead of in a box! as always, waving from the beautiful hills of North Carolina :)

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Photographer, stitcher, bookmaker, lover of upcycled anything, flowers make me happy, passionate about cowboy boots, embraces blue jeans as casual business attire, seeker of public art installations, and a believer that coffee and chocolate are food groups.